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It's what the Russian oligarchs did in creating the sale-of-the-century privatization of Russia's natural resources.
He fought for Rome in Hispania alongside his great-uncle Caesar and took up the responsibility of avenging Caesar’s death when the corrupt oligarchs in the Senate betrayed and murdered him.
Ukraine does not collapse, but the oligarchs reassert themselves and the new Ukraine begins to resemble the old Ukraine.
Whether this unites the oligarchs, or divides them, and whether it forces them to take their money out of Russia, or bring it back home, cannot be predicted.
With the stakes so high, many media owners have chosen to leave the game entirely, selling their outlets to pro-Kremlin oligarchs, many of whom were, fittingly, previously asked by Putin to buy soccer clubs.
Nowadays, both advanced economies (like the United States, where unlimited financing of elected officials by financially powerful business interests is simply legalized corruption) and emerging markets (where oligarchs often dominate the economy and the political system) seem to be run for the few.
After all, the Russian media do not seem more trustworthy, better informed, or more professionally run than in most countries; quite to the contrary, they are owned by a few oligarchs, and their bias and manipulation are both transparent and crude.
He tried to brow-beat investors at a board meeting in the Kremlin where – in good Soviet tradition – everyone was expected to vote unanimously to split the company into small pieces so as to sell them at low prices to cronies, political allies, and friendly oligarchs.
Managers of Government-controlled companies like Gazprom and UES live in a style befitting oligarchs, create nest eggs for themselves, and play around in politics.
After all, he would be giving Mueller’s prosecutors the goods on some Russian oligarchs close to President Vladimir Putin – folks who are not particularly gentle toward people who betray them.
Greece's largest private media, controlled by the country's oligarchs, are happy to oblige.
Meanwhile, independent trade unions have been all but crushed, and oligarchs now declare themselves willing to render their property to the state as needed.
Indeed, after sucking resources and money from Russia and its citizens, Putin and his obedient oligarchs have been allowed to invest their ill-gotten gains in European and US banks and real estate, paying fat fees that have fueled profit growth for Western firms.
Elements within Russia's political power structure have periodically waged war on the country's business elite--either to rein in the political ambitions of the oligarchs or to grab a bit of wealth for themselves--ever since the Soviet collapse.
What is different now is that this war--a defining feature of the Yeltsin era--was supposedly settled by President Putin early on in his administration, when he offered the oligarchs a deal: keep your wealth, we won't investigate how you got it, but stay out of politics.
He simply wants the oligarchs to stick to their sphere of activity and to leave politics to him.
The oligarchs would help their own cause by becoming more socially active and spending their money on philanthropical pursuits.
In fact, most oligarchs have started charities and foundations.
Yet Putin knows that he must curtail the political ambitions of the oligarchs if Russian business is to be modernized.
But neither the Kremlin's power elite, the bureaucracy, nor the oligarchs seem capable of reforming themselves.
So the summer attack on the Russian oligarchs may turn out to be a litmus test that reveals not only Putin's ability to control the oligarchs, but also the retrograde interests of his closest aides.
Many plaintiffs who brought such lawsuits – Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, Arab princes, African dictators, and unscrupulous bosses – had little chance to prevail.
Good Oligarch, Bad OligarchMOSCOW – With concern growing in the United States and Europe over Russia’s so-called oligarchs and the money they have stashed abroad, it is worth considering two fundamental questions.
Given this, Western governments need a more nuanced definition that distinguishes “bad” oligarchs from the rest.
In such cases, the oligarchs in question are clearly acting as loyal servants to Putin’s regime.
South Africa’s networks of patronage and corruption have become so endemic that the term “state capture” – coined by the World Bank to describe central Asian post-Soviet states where oligarchs coopted public institutions for personal profit – has entered widespread use.
The same is true of Russia, whose oligarchs, as well as the huge state investment fund that finance minister Alexi Kudrin has created, also want to invest their oil revenues in the US.
But while that might be good news for the tech oligarchs, whether it is good for the economy is far from clear.
Today, a small group of oligarchs clustered around Yanukovych have captured power.
Russian oligarchs and companies operating internationally – such as those that have interacted with The Trump Organization – are thus potential instruments of Russian foreign policy.
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